Australian news site Online Opinion features oped by Chris Johnson on the future of housing production. View full entry

Curbed gives a look and a commentary towards Philippe Starck's Downtown | Related reading View full entry

New York City's underground rapid transit system was inaugurated on October 27, 1904, and was part of the enlightened movement called "The City Beautiful." Which held that art and architecture must appeal to many and that beautiful structures could inspire civic virtue. View full entry

Weekly Dose has an Amsterdam Boathouse by Eindhoven Architecten BV. Check it. View full entry

Guardian's Jonathan Jones writes: As Norman Foster's Stirling prize-winner demonstrates, some of the most exciting sculpture of our time is being produced by architects. Related: Foster's Gherkin Wins Stirling Prize and, suprising news, will the owners of the pickle be able to ever lease it out? View full entry

Fred Bernstein reports on the Hartford, CT Science Center by Cesar Pelli. Previously... View full entry

Justin Davidson takes a look at Rafael Viñoly´s Jazz at Lincoln Center for Newsday. View full entry

Deyan Sudjic finally gets around to the Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhaas. Read View full entry

The winner of a prestigious competition to find the best of new British architecture is being announced today. From the Scotsman The six contenders for the £20,000 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize include the central London tower known as the... View full entry

Diane Petryk-Bloom reports on the momentum building behind the $63 million modernization of the Champlain border crossing to de designed by architect Henry Smith-Miller . | Related + previous reading”¦.. View full entry

The UK's digital gateway to its museums has more info on the Zaha Hadid Transport Museum in Glasgow, including news that Event Communications, designers of exhibitions such as the Imperial War mueseum's, will design displays. also, another rendering. previously... View full entry

(Mark my words...someday, some phd student will do research on the influence of Lockhart Steele on architectural discourse.) Curbed examines East River plans by Richard Rogers/Shop. & more... View full entry

Gerhard Kallmann , founding partner of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, defends his competition-winning design for Boston City Hall, the project that established his reputation some 40 years ago and has proven to be a controversial urban building ever since. View full entry

Back in ‘95 Robert Young and architect Nathaniel Corum founded Red Feather Development Group to help house American Indians on reservations. Today they are printing this book on straw bale construction and doing some really cool community design with... View full entry

Pics have popped up in the gallery of the work in the Biennale di Venezia. Look View full entry